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I've been working remotely for most of the past 10 years. Before that I worked in an office with the team.

Ideally I'd like to work remotely like 5-9 days in a row, then one day in the office. There is some aspects of office life I miss.

I'm productive at home. This is a mistake many people make: they think they can work remotely. It appears a lot of people cannot do it. There's something missing for them. It limits how much of programming can truly be done remotely -- the number of people that can work remotely seems far less than those that can't.

A common, and understandable, mistake I see is getting locked into a single set of technologies. You need exploration. You need to try new things in new domains to get a full feel of what programming is.